Social Studies-Greece
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- Classical Elements
- balance, proportion, order
- Epiuneans
- goal was to persue human pleasure (harmony of body and mind) world composed of gods and atoms
- Sophists
- did not believe that g-ds influeneced human behavior; not believe in absolute truth; did not believe in absolute/standard truth and legal
- Philosophers
- universe put together in orderly wayh and follows unchanging laws; people can understand laws of the world using reasoning and logic
- Ebatosthenes
- actual size of earth
- Comedy
- slapstick situations, crude humor, mistaken identitites; made fun of politics, respected people, ideas
- Golden Mean
- midpoint between two extremes, nothing to excess (relatively natural; not overdone, fits into nature)
- Ptolemy
- center of solar system
- Thucydides
- historian that rejected everything that was not first hand from an eye witness; wrote about Pelopannesian War
- Aristophonanes
- used grotesque msks and obscene jokes and personal attacks
- Epiuneans
- goal was to persue human pleasure (harmony of body and mind) world composed of gods and atoms
- Ptolemy
- center of solar system
- socrates
- believed in absolute standards of truth and justice; socratic method of teaching was to force people to explain their arguements and question their own beliefs
- Archimedes
- found pie, law of lever, invented compound principle and Archimedes screw, catipult
- tragedy
- serious drama (love, hate, war, betrayal); error in judgement that causes downfall: teach about life
- Optical Illusion
- artistic technique which creates a false image
- Parthenon
- building built to honnor Athena
- Perspective
- artistic technique which portrays the illusion of depth and distance
- Aristole
- lived life by golden: living moderately with no extremes; syllogism to follow have conclusions follow statements already made
- Euclid
- wrote elements (math book) that was used untilll recently
- Pythagoras
- mathmatician, explained everything in math terms
- Pelopannesian War Causes
- hosilitities, seeing each other as a threat
- Plato
- created school, believed in community above indivisual (like Sparta), thought government should be run by Phylosopher King, did not like [uneducated] lower class
- Euclid
- wrote elements (math book) that was used untilll recently
- Stoicism
- a school of philosophy that believed in divine power who controlled the universe and believed in divine life
- Sophocles
- wrote many plays, only 7 whole ones today; added third character; colorful, painted scenery; added expressive masks, founded human condition theatre
- Hellenistic
- blend of Egyptian,
- Herodutus
- father of history (seperated fact from fiction), wrote Historia (about outstanding people, social customs, religious beleives/practices)
- Hellenistic
- blend of Egyptian, Persian, Indian, and Greek cultures
- Ebatosthenes
- actual size of earth
- Archimedes
- found pie, law of lever, invented compound principle and Archimedes screw, catipult
- Hippocrates
- physician (father of medicine); believed in natural, not supernatural causes and body could heal itself
- Aristarchus
- said that sun was 300 times the larger than earth and earth revolves around sun
- Pelopannesian War Effects
- Athens lost empire, power, wealth, leadership; lost confidence in leaders-corrupt, weak, government faltered; weakening city-states, decline in military and economy; Great Thinkers emerge; birth of History
- Stoicism
- a school of philosophy that believed in divine power who controlled the universe and believed in divine life